Author: Eugène SuePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Atar Gull
Author: Eugène SueAtar Gull
Author: Fabien NuryPublisher: Titan Comics
ISBN: 1787732398
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Atar Gull or the tale of a model slave “I, Atar Gull, will never cry.” A man forced into slavery seeks cold-blooded revenge on those who took his freedom. From Fabien Nury, the award winning writer of the best-selling The Death of Stalin and Tyler Cross. Atar Gull is an African Chief doomed to follow his father’s footsteps as a slave in colonial Jamaica. Captured by notorious pirate Brulart, Atar Gull is taken on a gruelling journey across the Atlantic, witnessing horrors and injustices that should befall no man. Sold to ‘honorable’ slave owner Tom Will, he learns to bid his time with an unyielding resilience, until he can stay idle no more. Renowned writer Fabien Nury (Death to the Tsar, Tyler Cross) once again collaborates with artist Brüno (Nemo, Tyler Cross) for this illuminating take on the struggle of one man’s revenge amidst the height of the slave trade.
The French Atlantic Triangle
Author: Christopher L. MillerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822388839
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on the cultures of France and its colonies has received surprisingly little attention. Until recently, France had not publicly acknowledged its history as a major slave-trading power. The distinguished scholar Christopher L. Miller proposes a thorough assessment of the French slave trade and its cultural ramifications, in a broad, circum-Atlantic inquiry. This magisterial work is the first comprehensive examination of the French Atlantic slave trade and its consequences as represented in the history, literature, and film of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean. Miller offers a historical introduction to the cultural and economic dynamics of the French slave trade, and he shows how Enlightenment thinkers such as Montesquieu and Voltaire mused about the enslavement of Africans, while Rousseau ignored it. He follows the twists and turns of attitude regarding the slave trade through the works of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century French writers, including Olympe de Gouges, Madame de Staël, Madame de Duras, Prosper Mérimée, and Eugène Sue. For these authors, the slave trade was variously an object of sentiment, a moral conundrum, or an entertaining high-seas “adventure.” Turning to twentieth-century literature and film, Miller describes how artists from Africa and the Caribbean—including the writers Aimé Césaire, Maryse Condé, and Edouard Glissant, and the filmmakers Ousmane Sembene, Guy Deslauriers, and Roger Gnoan M’Bala—have confronted the aftermath of France’s slave trade, attempting to bridge the gaps between silence and disclosure, forgetfulness and memory.
Volcanism Associated with Extension at Consuming Plate Margins
Author: J. L. SmelliePublisher: Geological Society Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Harlequin Eaters
Author: Janet BeizerPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452970467
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socioeconomic and aesthetic history The concept of the “harlequin” refers to the practice of reassembling dinner scraps cleared from the plates of the wealthy to sell, replated, to the poor in nineteenth-century Paris. In The Harlequin Eaters, Janet Beizer investigates how the alimentary harlequin evolved in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the earlier, similarly patchworked Commedia dell’arte Harlequin character and can be used to rethink the entangled place of class, race, and food in the longer history of modernism. By superimposing figurations of the edible harlequin taken from a broad array of popular and canonical novels, newspaper articles, postcard photographs, and lithographs, Beizer shows that what is at stake in nineteenth-century discourses surrounding this mixed meal are representations not only of food but also of the marginalized people—the “harlequin eaters”—who consume it at this time when a global society is emerging. She reveals the imbrication of kitchen narratives and intellectual–aesthetic practices of thought and art, presenting a way to integrate socioeconomic history with the history of literature and the visual arts. The Harlequin Eaters also offers fascinating background to today’s problems of food inequity as it unpacks stories of the for-profit recycling of excess food across class and race divisions.
Atar-gull
Author: Eugènge SueThe Naval and military sketch book, and history of adventure by flood and field
Author: The Smell of Slavery
Author: Andrew KettlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108490735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Slavery, capitalism, and colonialism were understood as racially justified through false olfactory perceptions of African bodies throughout the Atlantic World.
Argentinean Literary Orientalism
Author: Axel GasquetPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030544664
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book examines the modes of representation of the East in Argentinean literature since the country’s independence, in works by canonical authors such as Esteban Echeverría, Juan B. Alberdi, Domingo F. Sarmiento, Lucio V. Mansilla, Pastor S. Obligado, Eduardo F. Wilde, Leopoldo Lugones, and Roberto Arlt. The East, which has always fascinated intellectuals and artists from the Americas, inspired the creation of imaginary elements for both aesthetic and political purposes, from the depiction of purportedly despotic rulers to a genuine admiration for Eastern history and millennial cultures. These writers appropriated the East either through their travels or by reading chronicles, integrating along the way images that would end up being universalized by the Argentinean dichotomy between civilization and barbarism, all the while assigning the negative stereotypes of the exotic East to the Pampa region. With time, the exoticism of the Eastern world would shed its geopolitical meaning and was ultimately integrated into the national literature, thus adding new elements into the Argentinean imaginary.
Author: Eugène Sue